Tepecano Prayers

Abstract

T HE following prayers or perdones as they are locally termed were collected during the months of December, 191I, to March, 1912, and from November of the latter year to January, I913, while I was enjoying the facilities for field work afforded me as representative from the University of Pennsylvania to the International School of Mexican Ethnology and Archeology.They were secured in AzqueltAn, a little pueblo in the northeastern corner of the state of Jalisco, some hundred miles west of Zacatecas and nearly the same distance north of Guadalajara.Here live the remainder of the Tepecanos, at present the southernmost people speaking a language of the Piman group.A brief sketch of their life and customs and collections of their folktales 2 have been published as well as a short account of one of the religious fiestas.3The principal results of the residence in Azquelt,n, in addition to the above-mentioned sketches, were studies of the language and of the religion of this group.An exposition of the language is being published by the New York Academy of Sciences.4To the same Academy is due no little credit for the appearance of the present paper, since it supplied 1 The Tepehuan Indians of Azqueltan, Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Americanists, London, 1912, p. 344-2 Four Mexican-Spanish Fairy-Tales from Azqueltan, Jalisco, J. A. F. L., XXV, p. I9I; Folk-Tales of the Tepecanos, ibid., XXVII, p. 148. 3 The Pinole Fiesta at Azqueltan, University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal, III, p. 44. 4 Tepecano, A Piman Language of Western Mexico, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.The appearance of this article is delayed on account of the war.5 K. T. Preuss, Die Religion der Cora-Indianer, Leipzig, 1912, and many smaller articles in various periodicals.

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